Re: OT - Politics

Jim wrote:
Les Cargill wrote:
DGDevin wrote:
Les Cargill wrote:

Our country is just fine. Things are the way they are for (very) good
reasons....

Six million more people living below the poverty line, another million with no health insurance--just fine?


It's fine, not perfect.

6M is not a very credible figure. Cite, please.

How 'bout the Bureau of the Census CPS?

POVERTY LEVELS IN AMERICA:

Clinton's last year,

2000 - 31,054,000 Americans below the poverty level
cite: http://pubdb3.census.gov/macro/032001/pov/new01_000.htm

Last year under Bush,

2007 - 37,276,000 Americans below the poverty level
cite: http://pubdb3.census.gov/macro/032008/pov/new01_100_01.htm

I make that an increase of OVER 6M. In fact, 6,222,000. And, before somebody says "because the population grew," NO! It's can increase from 11.3% to 12.5%.


Fair enough - I did not dig for very long. That *does* suck. Then
again, I was in poverty for two years after graduation from college....

A friend of mine works for the Salvation Army, and maybe it's
just observer bias, but she credits the lion's share of
unemployment/poverty to drugs and alcohol.

And, wanna take bets on what happens with the 2008 data???

It'll be fine. :)

--
Les Cargill
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